by Tim Buck | Apr 28, 2025 | America, Iran, Israel, President Trump
President Trump may prefer a diplomatic solution to stop Iran’s
creep toward a nuclear weapon, but claimed he’ll be “leading the pack” to war with the regime if talks falter.
“I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran,” he told Time Magazine in an interview published Friday, while claiming that President Joe Biden had allowed Iran to “become rich.”
Asked whether he was worried Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might drag him into a war with Iran, Trump said no. “By the way, we may go into a war. But we’re not getting dragged in.”
“You asked if he’d drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. No, I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal. If we don’t make a deal, I’ll be leading the pack,” the president explained.
President Trump was asked about reports that he stopped Netanyahu from striking Iran after an Oval Office meeting earlier this month.
“That’s not right,” he said.
“I didn’t stop them. But I didn’t make it comfortable for them, because I think we can make a deal without the attack. I hope we can. It’s possible we’ll have to attack, because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
But I didn’t make it comfortable for them, but I didn’t say no. Ultimately I was going to leave that choice to them, but I said I would much prefer a deal than bombs being dropped.”
A team of U.S. officials met with their Iranian counterparts in Oman again Saturday, for the third time, to continue negotiations aimed at stopping Tehran’s nuclear advancement.
Trump has said that his red line is Iran having a nuclear weapon. Enriching uranium well beyond civilian-use levels, Iran is just shy of the 90% levels needed for a weapon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week Iran could use a specified amount of low-level enriched uranium for civil nuclear programs, but it would have to be imported.
During a phone call on Tuesday, Netanyahu told Trump he “does not rule out” a diplomatic approach to Iran, but only one that would “leave no trace” of Iran’s nuclear program, according to Israeli media.
by Tim Buck | Apr 25, 2025 | Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Syria
Syria
Syria’s new jihadist President Ahmad al-Sharaa, says he wants peace with Israel. And claims he wants to join the Abraham Accords.
Two U.S. Republican congressmen sat with him face to face. He said he’s open to peace — but with conditions. Of course. Always conditions.
His condition is that Israel should be nice and hand over the Golan Heights. That’s not happening. The Golan makes up 5% of Israel’s already tiny territory, but it is 100% non-negotiable. It’s a critical military and strategic high ground — that the enemy would love to see Israel surrender. But Israel won’t give it up, not now, not ever.
The Golan protects northern Israel from both Syrian and Iran-backed terror militias and gives the IDF a direct view into southern Syria. Giving it away would be national suicide. Sharaa may have swapped his jihadi robe for a suit, but Israel isn’t stupid. And they don’t trust him.
Iran
Iran is back at the negotiating table, pushing for a nuclear deal — again. President Trump says talks are going well, but the Iranian regime is stalling, lying, and aiming at enriching uranium to dangerous levels. The US shouldn’t fool themselves again, they don’t enrich uranium because they want to end all wars, they enrich uranium because they want the war of wars.
Let’s be honest: They don’t want peace; they want leverage. They’re bleeding economically and desperate for sanctions relief, but they refuse to stop their terror export business.
Iran is terrified of Trump’s unpredictability and strength. That’s exactly how it should be. This is how peace is won — through strength, not begging.
Antisemitism
Europe is on fire with antisemitism — and the world pretends it’s nothing. In the Netherlands, antisemitic incidents hit a 40-year high. Jews hunted down in the streets of Amsterdam for supporting Israel. Mezuzahs torn down. Cemeteries desecrated. Jews make up just 0.3% of the Dutch population — yet they are 37% of hate-crime victims.
This isn’t about “Israel-Palestine.” It’s about pure Jew-hatred. Again. History is repeating itself, and the world is yawning.
And still, governments shrug and say “education” is enough. It’s not. This is a crisis, and crisis means action. Ban the hate groups. Cut off funding to institutions that promote hate. Make antisemitism a career-ending crime — because that’s how you fight evil.
Gaza and Hostage Deal
In Gaza, Israel is fighting a terror army that uses babies as shields and hospitals as command centers. Every day, IDF soldiers risk their lives to protect Israeli civilians — and Palestinian civilians too. Yesterday, the IDF announced that another IDF soldier fell in a battle in northern Gaza.
Israel’s IDF heroes are fighting street by street, dismantling terror tunnels, working to bring the hostages home, because Hamas is using them as bargaining chips.
Despite world opinion, Israel is not the bad guys. Hamas is hoarding aid, torturing its own people, and still holding innocent Israeli hostages.
The world can scream “ceasefire” all it wants — but there is no ceasefire until the hostages come back home and Hamas is in pieces.
ICC
For once, the International Criminal Court did something right. It overturned a biased lower court ruling and gave Israel a chance to defend itself in court. This isn’t a victory — it’s just a breather. But it’s a reminder: the world will always try to drag Israel through the mud.
Israel’s crime? Surviving. Defending themselves. Existing. They should never apologize. They’ll fight in court, fight in the media, and fight on the battlefield — because history has shown what happens when Jews stay silent.
Israel is surrounded by enemies, smeared by cowards, and defended by heroes. And they will not back down.
Show your support — stand with Israel.
by Tim Buck | Apr 16, 2025 | Israel, United Nations
“They have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the surrounding nations and you are taken up in slander by the lips of the talkers.”
Ezekiel 36:6
As we get closer to the Lord’s return, hatred for Israel will only increase!
The International Court of Justice, a U.N. agency in The Hague, set five days of public hearings, starting late this month, in the U.N. General Assembly’s case against Israel for banning the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRAW).
The General Assembly passed a resolution in December by a 137-12 vote seeking an advisory opinion from the court about Israel’s anti-UNRWA laws, which Israel’s Knesset passed in October and which took effect in January. (There were 22 abstentions in the General Assembly vote.)
The court is to assess Israel’s responsibility, as a U.N. member state, to provide and facilitate essential services and humanitarian assistance for the population in what the United Nations calls the “occupied territories,” according to the resolution.
One of Israel’s laws they passed in the Knesset, banned UNRWA, whose ties to Gazan terror groups Israel has documented, from operating in the Jewish state, including throughout Jerusalem. The United Nations considers part of the Jewish capital to be Palestinian territory.
The Israeli law mandated that all UNRWA facilities, including administrative offices, schools and health clinics, be shuttered.
Earlier this week, Israeli authorities gave six UNRWA educational institutions in Jerusalem notice that they will be closed in 30 days.
The other Israeli law forbids officials of the Jewish state from communicating with UNRWA officials. The United Nations has said that these developments will make it very hard, if not impossible, for UNRWA to carry out its work in Gaza. UNRWA operates under a mandate from the U.N. General Assembly.
The hearing is slated to run from April 28 to May 2, with 44 states and four international organizations scheduled to present statements. Israel does not plan to participate. The United States does.
Almost all of the first day of hearings is reserved for testimony by the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority.
The court has previously provided non-binding opinions on issues regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including a ruling last year declaring Israeli presence in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to be illegal.
Another pending case brought by South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
by Tim Buck | Apr 15, 2025 | Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Nations, President Trump
“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.”
Psalms 2:1-3
Trouble Coming!
President Trump has stepped into it, possibly not even knowing how dangerous it is!
Is it possible the Rapture and Tribulation are coming upon the world sooner than we think? I believe recent developments being planned against Trump and Netanyahu, which I’ll be talking about in class, should make us see things differently.
As we race toward the 7-year Tribulation, wars and rumors of wars keep boiling over as between Ukraine and Russia, across Africa, Turkey in Syria, Iran and her proxies and especially the bloodshed around Israel.
Beyond these regional battles a much greater spiritual war is raging in the heavenlies between God and Satan for control of Jerusalem. As a result, there’s an epic, and unavoidable, ‘Prophetic Showdown’ rising and coming sooner than we think, possibly in a few months and almost certainly this year!
Behind the scenes and away from the media, plans for a major confrontation is taking shape. The devil and his anti-Israel allies on earth, are furious at what President Trump and Israel are doing in Gaza which they see as a massive mistreatment of the Palestinians.
They are charging that the destruction of Gaza and “forced evacuation” of the Palestinian people have crossed a red line.
From what I can tell, it seems that God is pulling out all the stops in His timeline for the start of the Tribulation. All the features needed for the start of the Tribulation are falling into place.
With this awareness the enemy has been planning his response since even before President Trump’s Inauguration. Very soon he’ll launch his evil plans to take back control of Gaza and force the Two State Solution for a Palestinian State headed up by the wicked and antisemitic Palestinian Authority.
The international community of Satan’s minions have come together and are not going to stand back and just watch what’s happening in Gaza any longer and so they plan to prevent Trump’s takeover of Gaza and stop it from going further.
by Tim Buck | Apr 14, 2025 | Anti-Christ, Daniel's Prophecies, Empires, Israel, Turkey
Studies in Daniel, Revealing Todays Secrets
This is my overview about this much-debated topic from our 3-year study of Daniel’s prophesies at Focus on the End Times.
Europe or Middle East?
For quite some time, it was believed and taught that Antichrist would emerge from a revived Roman Empire. I was taught this view in seminary and had no reason to doubt it until I dug deeper into the prophesies of Daniel.
One of the main reasons for accepting the ‘revived Roman Empire’ theory is because Rome follows Greece in the historical sequence of empires. This leads to the false assumption that the 4th empire in Daniel chapters two and seven must be Rome.
But that assumption is not accurate based on the details in the text and over the last few decades, the revived Roman Empire theory has been reconsidered and is increasingly rejected by Bible scholars.
The rise to prominence of the Islamic countries like Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia in the middle of the 20th century, along with Israel’s rebirth as a nation in 1948, has cast increasing doubt on the “European Antichrist” theory.
Daniel Chapter 8, which prophesies the rise and fall of the Greek Empire (330-63 B.C.) is crucial.
Which Empire?
Much of Daniel’s prophecy in chapters two and seven is taken up with the sequence of the three Gentile Empires relevant to Israel who are Babylon (lion), Persia (bear) and Greece (leopard).
So here’s a quick question. In all of Daniel’s prophecies, which of these three empires would you think is the most prophetically important in the book of Daniel?
By far, the most frequent empire discussed in Daniel is the Grecian Empire where it appears in chapters 2, 7, 8, and 11. Following the death of Alexander the Great, who had no legitimate heir, his empire was divided among his four generals.
The largest of the four regions which covered Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran and to the border of India was given to General Seleucus. Many years later this region came under the Seleucid king and tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes IV (175-164 B.C.) who became one of Israel’s greatest persecutors.
Alexander’s empire was divided into four territories. The above map shows the largest territory, the Seleucid Empire which gave rise to the forerunner of Antichrist, Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The geographical territory of the Seleucid Empire was a composite of the Grecian Empire plus the Persian and Babylonian Empires.
Below is the same territory as we see it today that is described in Revelation 13:2 as the “Beast” which will give rise to Antichrist.
Antiochus, Forerunner of Antichrist
Antiochus’ oppression of Israel is laid out in Daniel 8:9-14 and 23-25 and again in Daniel 11:21-35. Among his atrocities, Antiochus blasphemed God, forbid the Jews from worshipping God, outlawed Judaism and circumcision, proclaimed himself God (“Epiphanes” means “God Manifest” or “God is Present”), desecrated Israel’s Temple and murdered multitudes of Jews.
In essence, Antiochus committed atrocities against the Jews that are stunningly parallel to the actions of Antichrist. Bible scholars agree that Antiochus Epiphanes is a forerunner, a foreshadow, or a “type” of Antichrist. To make sure we get that message God refers to both men as the “little horn” (Dan. 7:8; 8:9). Not because their statures are little but to highlight that one is a template for the other.
And in another clue for the location of Antichrist’s empire, Daniel 11 refers to both men as the “King of the North” (11:15, 40). Notice the geographical description does not say he’s the “King of the West” which would be necessary if it was pointing to Europe and a revived Roman Empire. Since the land of Israel is central in biblical geography, the north means north of Israel. The north of Israel is the greater Middle East not Italy or the Vatican!
Follow God’s Template
Antiochus Epiphanes rose from the Middle East, not Europe. If God designed Antiochus to purposely be the template for Antichrist in Scripture, the pattern dictates that Antichrist will follow in Antiochus’ footsteps and emerge from the same region of the world. And that’s precisely what Revelation 13 shows us.
If this is the case, (and for many other reasons space won’t allow for here), Antichrist will be a native of the Middle East not Europe. And since the entire Middle East is an Islamic stronghold today we can conclude Antichrist must be a religious Muslim, not a Catholic or any other type of Christian.
Three Empires Become One
Daniel 7 provides more support for the Middle Eastern, Islamic empire of Antichrist. In Daniel Chapter 7 the three great Gentile empires of Babylon, Persia and Greece are described as beasts and their sequence is given as follows.
Babylon (“Lion” – 7:4) first came and conquered and captured Israel. Persia (“Bear” – 7:5) then captured the Babylonian Empire and the Grecian Empire (“Leopard” – 7:6), under Alexander the Great, conquered the Persian Empire. Very clearly, these historic empires are three separate, Middle Eastern empires with each successive empire capturing the one before it.
When Antichrist’s Empire is presented in Revelation 13 as the “beast,” the passage tells us precisely where Antichrist’s Empire will be located. Whereas we saw them as three empires in Daniel 7, the same 3 Middle Eastern empires now combine their territories to form one empire in Revelation 13. This means that the composite geographic boundaries of the Babylonian, Persian and Grecian empires is what will make up the boundary for Antichrist’s empire.
Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard (Greece), his feet were like the feet of a bear (Persia), and his mouth like the mouth of a lion (Babylonian). The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 13:2
Since this passage puts Antichrist’s empire fully in the Muslim controlled Middle East, how can Bible teachers say it’s a Roman Empire with Antichrist emerging from Europe?
Scripture cannot be in conflict with itself because God is the author.
The evidence for Antichrist coming from the Middle East and therefore being an Islamic leader is not based on an isolated passage but comes from the wealth of four different chapters in Daniel in concert with Revelation 13 which overwhelmingly show that Antichrist and his final empire of ten kings rises from the Middle East not Europe, America or anywhere else!
Conclusion
In summary, God provides a forerunner that’s as good as the best military intelligence available, in order for Israel to have clarity for where to look for the enemy during the Tribulation period.
Getting the location right and that Antichrist will rise from the north of Israel (Middle East) and not to the west of Israel (Europe) will be crucial to saving many lives.
There are clear indications that Antichrist will arise from the Middle East, from a country to the north of Israel. Some of his titles point in this direction, the Assyrian ( Isa. 10:12-14) and the King of the North (Dan. 11:36-45) and the Northern army (Joel 2:20).
How will the Jewish people living in the Tribulation recognize Antichrist? They will recognize him when an Islamic leader rises in the Middle East, north of Israel, and takes control of the newly formed Islamic Caliphate and then confirms a 7-Year peace agreement with Israel.
When that occurs, alert watchers in Israel will recognize Antichrist for who he is and realize they have entered Daniel’s 70th week, the final seven years, and many will come to believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Messiah.
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